The late-night host is transforming into campaign manager for one of the biggest elections of the year.
John Oliver is transforming from a comedian into a campaign manager for one of the biggest elections of the year: New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll. On his show “Last Week Tonight” on Monday, he backed the pūteketeke bird as New Zealand’s Bird of the Century, a competition organized by the conservation group Forest & Bird. Oliver listed “fun facts” explaining why the “weird puking birds with colorful mullets” were his pick for the highly coveted avian title.
In Europe, a billboard on the Champs-Élysées in Paris depicted the bird sitting at a table of French cheese and wearing a beret, while a van drove around London with a picture of the bird on a throne saying, “Help us crown a real king.” In Brazil, a plane trailing a banner flew over Ipanema Beach. The show even put up a billboard in Manetowoc, Wisconsin “because not everyone lives in big cities.
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